In terms of their difference, the two first editions constitute two versions of the novel. She furthermore continued to revise the text for the Hogarth Press edition alone, making additional changes to the Clark & Clark revised proofs this final stage of revision has not before been clearly distinguished, but I shall argue for it below.Ĥ To the Lighthouse was thus given to the public in two distinct texts. But, as is well known, they are not identical, since in a significant number of instances Virginia Woolf marked up the first proofs differently for each of them. These editions were published simultaneously - quite literally so, as they appeared on the same day,, on both sides of the Atlantic.

In the case of To the Lighthouse, this was a double appearance, manifested in the London and New York editions. Prospectively, the proofs document the textual point of departure towards the novel’s public appearance. Although this would be a fascinating field to explore, I do not intend to do so here. 3 It is item M31, in three parts, among the Virginia Woolf holdings in the Berg Collection, New York (.)ģ Since the novel’s holograph draft survives, 3 the proofs make it possible, by retrospective exploration, to compare draft and revision states in terms of the structuring of the novel and the composition of its text.Unless text has been changed, or spacings have been adjusted by meticulous compositors, their line and page breaks fully coincide. More decisively, it is demonstrable from the close typographical congruence between the extant Clark & Clark first proofs and the Hogarth Press first edition. That both main sets were identical, however - the preserved printer’s copy for New York and the lost proof set used for a first round of corrections and revisions for the Hogarth Press edition - may be inferred from the significant textual identity in substantives as well as accidentals between the New York and London editions. The set that carried the mark-up for the Hogarth Press edition, on the other hand, is no longer extant. 2 They were sent as printer’s copy to Harcourt, Brace in New York. One set of these, marked up by Virginia Woolf herself, and a fragment of a second set, from page 273 to the end of the book, also marked up by her, have survived. There is a complete holograph draft, and there are the first proofs from the Edinburgh printers, Clark & Clark, whom the Hogarth Press regularly employed. 2 These are now housed in the Frances Hooper Collection, William Allan Neilson Library, Smith College (.)Ģ The source materials for the novel, though not consistently preserved, are well defined.

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